It took firefighters nearly half an hour to control the blaze, which razed the house to the ground.

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Pranee Kaokratoke said she smelled smoke while having a shower upstairs, and rushed downstairs to find her house on fire. She believes a short circuit may have sparked the blaze.

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The Ban Thai Samart village fund committee and the Ban Dan sub-district municipality have provided Pranee with basic necessities, drinking water and temporary lodging.

Woman narrowly escapes fire

A 62-year-old woman managed to safely make her way out of her burning two-storey wooden house in Sa Kaew’s Aranyaprathet district on Tuesday (September 1).